Wow WHAT A WEEK!
I am officially a trainer and I
can't believe how exhausting is can be. But I have been LOVING being with
Hermana Fa'asa, she is truly an example of HOW to use the Atonement. I love her
and she has become one of my best friends....
FOR EXAMPLE: Sunday night we made a 20 day excercise plan that is INCREDIBLY intense and we started it this morning...... Oh my gosh, my legs and arms were a-shakin' ... but it felt SUPER bien! Our motto is. "Get fit! DON'T GET FAT!" Motivating....I know. Mom, you would be so proud. I have bought mangos, bananas, apples and kiwis :)
Ejemplo numero DOS:
Thursday started off really good....
awesome companionship study, we weekly planned...the whole 9 yards AND THEN
SOME. The family we were going to eat with had to bring the food to our house
because they were going to leave. They brought fish, rice and salad...I was
pretty excited! We eat and we go out to teach. To make this story fast, we
taught 4 lessons and we returned back home because we BOTH had stomach
problems. And within 30 minutes, Hermana Fa'asa was throwing up in the sink and
I was throwing up in the toilet. COMPANIONSHIP UNITY!!!! Yeah,
it wasn't fun. I felt SO bad for Hma Fa'asa, i mean, her SECOND day in Mexico
and she got food poisoning. Bienvenida Hermana...bienvenida. hahaha!
Please please PLEASE pray for my
companion, she is going through the EXACT same thing I went through my 1st two
months here: Fear, Stress, Homesickness, sickness in general, confusion, doubts....
Please pray that she'll have a desire to stay, I have been doing all I can to
help her with her Spanish so that she can be confident, I have been being
INCREDIBLY positive and supportive. I haven't been forcing anything, just
teaching with love...because, well, I learned that forcing and being strict and
easily annoyed is what can make your training MISERABLE.
Please pray that I can have the
strength to help her and to love her no matter what. This companionship started
out REALLY strong and awesome, AND I WANNA KEEP IT THAT WAY :) I fasted for her
Sunday afternoon to Monday afternoon, I want her to feel like she NEEDS to be
here.
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| Hermana Fa'asa curled my hair for church :) I LOOKED PRETTY! :) hahaha! I feel pretty, oh so pretty....I feel pretty and witty and WISE! :) |
On Sunday we ate with the Sanchez
Family for the first time and we found out, the dad speaks AND understands
English. The mom and the two daughters don't speak English but they UNDERSTAND
it! Hermana Fa'asa and I were SO happy! And it was SUPER weird speaking
English! :) hahaha. I wonder how Mother's Day is going to go...I swear, English
is so hard to speak now.
We visited Dolores on Friday and she
told me something that made me sick to my stomach (not literally...I didn't
throw up again). Her husband (they are separated, not divorced) came to her
house last Friday asking her for something that she didn't have...and when she
told him she didn't have it, HE FREAKED OUT and started beating her pretty
violently, he put his hand on her throat and slammed her against the wall (as
she described it to us) and screamed in her face pretty nasty things.
Her son, Jose Manuel, was on the
other side of the house and heard his dad yelling and thought he was yelling at
the dogs....until it starting getting ridiculous and he went to go investigate
and saw his own father beating the "you know what" out of his mother.
He tried throwing his dad off of his
mother but ended up being beat up WITH his mother. The dad left and came back
about an hour later asking for forgiveness, and Hermana Dolores told us what
she said, "I forgive you for what you have done, but know it will become
INCREDIBLY hard to receive the forgiveness from your own son....and you are not
allowed to return her ever again." And guess what he started doing? He
came in and started beating her again. She showed us the handprints on her
neck, I saw her incredibly black eyes and her bruised arms from trying to
block.
Mom and Dad, thank you for always
loving each other and teaching your children how to have a healthy marriage.
Dad, thank you for always loving Mom. Mom, thank you for always loving Dad.
Thank you for loving each other even when times are difficult. I have been so
blessed to have such amazing examples in my life.
Please pray for Dolores and her son
that they might have peace. Many
people think that the Atonement of Jesus Christ is just to be clean from your
sins, but that is SO wrong. He suffered and died that we might find peace when
the world comes in in its fury. He suffered and died that WE might be healed
and that our cuts & bruises go away. I do not "think," I KNOW
this to be true. I have heard my Savior's voice and I have been healed by Him.
3 He is adespised and rejected of men; a man of bsorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we cesteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath aborne our bgriefs, and carried our sorrows: yet
we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was awounded for our btransgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him;and with his cstripes we are dhealed.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not hismouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep
before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Why didn't he open His mouth? Because He KNEW we needed His
Atonement, He did it throughlove.
And the world, because of their iniquity, shall judge him to be a thing ofnaught; wherefore they scourge him, and he suffereth it;and they smite him,
and he suffereth it. Yea, they spit uponhim,and he suffereth it, because of his loving kindness and his long-suffering towards the children of men.
And as he was scourged and beaten, what did He say on the
cross? "Father, forgive them. For they know not what they
do." We can find peace through HIM.
El es el camino. No hay otro camino, no hay otro hombre a
donde podemos encontrar paz y consuelo verdadero. Solamente por medio de
Jesucristo! Muchos personas olvidan de una parte BIEN importante de
La Expiación. Sí, El sufrió y murió....pero no es
todo. Él vivió después! ¿Que significa eso para
nosotros? PODEMOS VIVIR, podemos DISFRUTAR esta vida! No estamos aquí para
sufrir. Padre Celestial es nuestro AMOROSO Padre Celestial... jaja. Estoy TAN
agradecida por mi Señor y Redentor, Jesucristo. Sí, la misión es difícil...pero
no es imposible. Esta vida es difícil, pero no es imposible. Voy
a cumplir SÍES MESES en la misión y no tengo UN bautismo. Pero,
esta bien :) No estoy aquí para
bautismos....estoy aquí para invitar a las personas a venir a Cristo.
Hermana Fa'asa y yo estamos plantando las semillas en sus corazones.
Estamos representando El Señor cada día, y le amamos. Estoy TAN agradecida por
mi compañera y su deseo a estar aquí conmigo, su testimonio es FUERTE y estoy
SUPER feliz con ella. :) Se que ella es una bendición para mi y se que mi Padre
Celestial me ha dado el consuelo y paz que yo necesité. Soy un miembro
orgulloso de la Iglesia verdadera, jaja :)
I love you all and thank you for your undying love and
support. I literally feel your prayers every moment I am here, please keep
praying for me and my companion! Keep strong! And venga lo que venga y
DISFRUTALO! :)
Con amor,
Hermana Winsor :)
P.S. Thanks for telling me about
your FIJI trip mom! AND YOU WENT SHARK DIVING?! Wow, you and Dad are crazy! But
I love you still :) And I am going to be honest, I saw the picture where Dad is
in flip flops, and I may or may have not laughed...but way to go Dad! :) And
don't worry, you AND Dad are ALWAYS in my prayers. Good luck with the move and
be sure to send me more pictures of the house! :) Love you mom!! :)
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| THUG LYFE! |
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